Venom guitarist/vocalist Stuart “Rage” Dixon and drummer/vocalist Danny “Dante” Needham have commented on their band’s decision to name their latest album “Into Oblivion“. The group raised eyebrows upon announcing the May 01st release of that record, given that multi-platinum groove metal band Lamb Of God had just issued a new album of their own by the same name this past March.
Speaking to Overdrive.it about the similarities and if there was any problems internally over the shared titled, Rage was quoted as saying, “I think there was a bit, like, we were messaging, and then, I’ll not say who it was, one of us went, ‘So fucking what?'”
Dante went on to say: “The record label weren’t too concerned. So it wasn’t, like, ‘Shit, we need a quick change of plan.’ It was, like, ‘Nah, nah.'” Rage then quipped: “We wrote the song [the ‘Into Oblivion‘ title track] five years ago. Fuck that. We were there first.”
Danté concluded: “They’ve [Lamb Of God] done three fucking albums since we wrote that fucker, so we were at least touring then.” Venom announced their aforementioned 16th album on March 05th of this year, while Lamb Of God lifted the veil of their record on January 15th.
[via Blabbermouth.net]
